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Although computers can improve hand-eye coordination and spatial reasoning, computer games are a cause of poor literacy in children. After-school hours spent playing computer games are hours not spent reading. Therefore, children who spend most of their spare time playing these games have less experience reading than other children have.
The argument depends on which of the following assumptions?
A. Passive activities such as watching television and listening to music do not hinder the development of reading skills in children.
B. Most children who play video games do not have other opportunities other than after-school hours in which they might focus on reading.
C. Children who do not spend most of their after-school hours playing computer games spend at least some of that time reading.
D. Formal instruction contributes little or nothing to children's acquisition of reading skills.
E. The mental skills developed through playing computer games do not contribute significantly to children's intellectual development.
The argument depends on which of the following assumptions?
A. Passive activities such as watching television and listening to music do not hinder the development of reading skills in children.
B. Most children who play video games do not have other opportunities other than after-school hours in which they might focus on reading.
C. Children who do not spend most of their after-school hours playing computer games spend at least some of that time reading.
D. Formal instruction contributes little or nothing to children's acquisition of reading skills.
E. The mental skills developed through playing computer games do not contribute significantly to children's intellectual development.
17 Aug 2019, 08:29
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The argument directly compares video-game-playing children with other children. But it tells us nothing about what those other children are doing with the free time they have because they don't play video games. The argument is just assuming that those other children are improving their literacy (rather than watching tv or playing volleyball) while the video game players are playing games. So C is an assumption.
17 Aug 2019, 22:20
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why not B ?
Students who play video games might have free hours during school time in which they can focus on reading.
IanStewart Skywalker18 GMATNinja
Students who play video games might have free hours during school time in which they can focus on reading.
IanStewart Skywalker18 GMATNinja
